Correcting the Lost Development "Course" On-the-spot Report on the Demolition and Rectification of the Second Phase of Phoenix Island in Sanya, Hainan

2023-05-09 09:43:24

On May 5, according to the statistics of Sanya Municipal Bureau of Tourism and Culture, Sanya's scenic spots and coconut-class rural tourist spots received 723,900 tourists during the holidays, an increase of 819.37% over the same period last year; the number of inbound and outbound tourists in Sanya was 587,100, an increase of 259.47% over the same period last year.

The sky is blue and the sea is blue, and tourists are busy. During the May Day holiday this year, tourism in Sanya, Hainan, continued to be hot. On May 5, according to the statistics of Sanya Tourism and Culture Bureau, a total of 723900 tourists were received in Sanya scenic spots and coconut rural tourist spots during the holidays, an increase of 819.37% over the same period of last year; The number of inbound and outbound passengers in Sanya was 587,100, an increase of 259 compared with the same period last year.

In the bustling urban area of Sanya, the Sanya River winds through the Sunshine Coast of Sanya Bay Resort near the eastern section of Luhuitou and the southeast side of Phoenix Island. On the southwest side of the island, a lighthouse built in the 1960s stands on a reef, watching the ebb and flow of the tide and the clouds. Beside

the lighthouse and reef, the huge "scar" caused by the second phase reclamation of more than 50 hectares of Phoenix Island has been completely removed. Seen from a distance, the sails were dotted, and the ships shuttling back and forth brought up white waves on the sea.

Without environmental protection, there will be no free trade port

. Hainan Province is the only tropical province in China and the largest special economic zone in China, with the best ecological environment in the country. Green mountains, green waters, blue sea and blue sky are the biggest capital for Hainan's construction and development. During his visit to Hainan in April

2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that protecting the ecological environment means protecting productivity and improving the ecological environment means developing productivity. It is hoped that Hainan will properly handle the relationship between development and protection, focus on "increasing green" and "protecting blue", set an example for the national construction of ecological civilization, and leave a sustainable "green bank" for future generations.

However, in the process of promoting the economic and social development of Sanya, some people have lost their "course". The second phase of Phoenix Island project is a typical case of illegal construction and inadequate renovation. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervisory Commission, based on their duties and functions, launched an in-depth investigation.

Sanya Phoenix Island Project was originally a Baipai International Passenger Terminal and Artificial Island Project.

In this case, some leading cadres still speed up the development and construction of the second phase for the sake of "political achievements", which makes the project establishment, planning, approval and construction all illegal. In 2016, it took about two years to complete the main reclamation of the second phase of Phoenix Island, forming No.2 artificial island, which occupies 49.96 hectares of the sea, and No.1 and No.2 artificial island connecting lines occupy the sea.

"Phoenix Island Reclamation Project obtains the right to use the sea area in the name of international passenger port and cruise port, but it is mainly used for real estate and hotel development." Due to the change of water flow caused by island filling, the western coastline of Sanya Bay has been eroded, and in order to repair the beach, a huge sum of money has to be spent on artificial sand filling in Sanya Bay. At the end of 2017, the first round of central environmental protection supervision achieved full coverage of 31 provinces, municipalities and Sinkiang Production and Construction Corps in the country. It was this round of inspections that found ecological and environmental problems such as illegal reclamation and development in some parts of Hainan, and the Phoenix Island project was criticized by name and ordered to rectify.

The feedback from the central environmental protection inspectors should have been "one by one rectification, one by one acceptance, one by one sales number", but after several years, the progress of rectification has not been smooth.

In the second half of 2019, the Third Central Eco-environmental Protection Supervision Group carried out the second round of central environmental protection supervision in Hainan. The new round of inspectors will investigate not only violations of laws and regulations in the ecological environment, but also illegal decision-making and ineffective supervision; they will investigate inaction and slow action, as well as disorderly action and indiscriminate action. In May

2020, the Third Eco-environmental Protection Supervision Group of the Central Committee pointed out in its feedback report to Hainan that in dealing with the problem of illegal reclamation, it was not enough, the scale was different, and some reclamation projects even continued to violate laws and regulations.

The inspection team found that the illegal construction of the second phase of Phoenix Island resulted in the erosion of the coastline of Sanya Bay, the degradation of the beach, the obstruction of the smooth flow of the Sanya River estuary, the accumulation of pollutants, the serious pollution of the water body, and the serious damage to the coral reef system in Sanya Bay.

The "course" was lost, the loss was heavy, and the lesson was profound.

In the construction of the second phase of the Phoenix Island project, Wang Yong, former vice-chairman of the Hainan Provincial Political Consultative Conference and then mayor of Sanya City, violated the regulations to promote the reclamation project and caused serious consequences. Tong Daochi, former member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and former Secretary of the Sanya Municipal Party Committee, violated the requirements of the central environmental protection supervision and rectification, and even openly confronted them. For serious violations of political discipline and rules, as well as other serious violations of discipline and law, the two men were placed on file for examination and investigation by the State Supervisory Commission of the Central Discipline Commission, and were eventually severely punished by the Party's discipline and state law.

Hainan is an ecological province, and the construction of free trade ports must conform to Hainan's development orientation and follow the path of harmonious development between man and nature. Without the protection of the ecological environment, there will be no free trade port in Hainan, and we must not take the protection of the ecological environment lightly. The

lost "course" must be corrected. The survey found that some Party members and leading cadres are still not aware of the importance of green development, still reluctant to give up the development model at the cost of the ecological environment, and some of them are also linked with the interests of relevant enterprises, which leads to the discount and flexibility in the implementation of the major decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, resulting in serious damage to the people. The State Supervisory Commission of the Central

Commission for Discipline Inspection has carried out political supervision over the problems reflected in the second phase of the Phoenix Island Project, put forward suggestions on discipline inspection and supervision to Hainan Province, urged Hainan Province to implement the rectification requirements of the Central Environmental Protection Supervision Group, dismantle the illegal construction projects as soon as possible, and continuously follow up and supervise the implementation of the rectification. On April 13,

2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping announced the construction of a free trade port in Hainan at the Congress celebrating the 30th anniversary of the establishment of a provincial-run special economic zone in Hainan, emphasizing that Hainan should firmly establish and fully practice the idea that green water and green hills are Jinshan and Yinshan. Implement the strictest ecological environment protection system and strictly protect the marine ecological environment.

In 2021, Hainan Province made public the implementation of the second round of central environmental protection supervision and rectification, and made it clear that it would take a strong responsibility to solve the bottleneck problem and make real efforts to rectify the reclamation problem.

How to rectify how to change? Dismantling is much more difficult than filling. Should we keep it or dismantle it? However, to settle political, ecological and longer-term economic accounts, we must thoroughly rectify and resolutely dismantle them.

The Hainan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision insist on strictly administering the Party in an all-round way. First of all, from a political point of view, they should fully deploy, fully promote and participate in the whole process, and take the rectification of the central environmental protection supervision and the promotion of reform by cases as practical actions to practice the "two safeguards".

The Hainan Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government have set up a provincial leading group for the rectification of ecological environmental protection supervision, which comprehensively guides the deployment of the rectification of feedback from the central ecological environmental protection supervision and coordinates the solution of major problems. Seven reclamation issues, including the second phase of Phoenix Island, will be included in the Special Rectification Plan for Implementing the Spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's Important Instructions on Hainan's Eco-environmental Protection in Hainan Province, so as to promote the rectification of key issues in a concentrated form.

After many studies and demonstrations, in view of the serious violations of planning and the destruction of marine ecology in the Phoenix Island project, the rectification plan clearly requires that the second phase of the Phoenix Island project be demolished and restored to its original appearance. Whether the

ideological understanding is in place directly determines whether the Party Central Committee's decision-making and deployment can be fully implemented, and directly determines the strength and effect of the rectification. Hainan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision attaches great importance to the second phase of the rectification of Phoenix Island, requiring Sanya City to unify its thinking, eliminate interference, and take the rectification of illegal construction projects as a "top leader" project. Cai Yonghong, Director of the Second Supervision Department of the Department of Ecology and Environment of

Hainan Province, participated in the supervision of the second phase of the rectification of Phoenix Island. In his view, the most difficult thing in the rectification work is to unify ideas. "After unifying our thinking, we should work hard to implement it."

Cai Yonghong told reporters that on the issue of slow rectification, the Office of the Provincial Leading Group of Eco-environmental Protection Supervision and Rectification had publicly interviewed the Sanya Municipal Government to promote the implementation of responsibilities. The Sanya Municipal Government fully accepts, takes the initiative, carries out reforms, earnestly enhances political consciousness and action consciousness, and does a good job of rectification and reform.

According to the requirements of the central environmental protection supervision and rectification work, all the artificial islands formed by the second phase of the reclamation project of Phoenix Island should be demolished, including the No.2 artificial island and the corridor section between the No.1 artificial island. The total amount of the demolition project is estimated to be about 6.07 million cubic meters. Based on a standard swimming pool volume of about 2500 cubic meters, this is equivalent to digging out more than 2400 swimming pools.

Faced with the hard bone to gnaw, the Sanya Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government have set up a leading group of ecological environmental protection supervision and rectification work headed by the main leaders of the Party and the government and a headquarters for the rectification of the Phoenix Island Project, with the Secretary of the Municipal Discipline Commission as the supervisory group leader, to urge the preparation of technical plans for rectification and demolition, with a firm attitude, great efforts, scientific methods and procedures. Steadily and efficiently promote rectification and demolition. The second phase of

Phoenix Island is one of the special rectifications to implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on ecological environment protection in Hainan Province. The Hainan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision strengthens the political supervision of ecological environmental protection, and supervises the whole process of demolition and rectification by means of spot checks, unannounced visits, on-the-spot supervision and participation in special supervision.

"Chen Guomeng, Secretary of the Provincial Discipline Commission, has visited Sanya many times to investigate and guide the rectification work, to understand the implementation of the project rectification through open and secret visits, and to urge the acceleration of the rectification work." Chen Ming, deputy director of the Second Supervision and Inspection Office of the Hainan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, introduced to reporters that the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision also strengthened the follow-up inspection of the progress and effectiveness of the project rectification, and asked the Sanya Municipal Government to form a written report regularly.On July 2,

2021, the second phase demolition project of Phoenix Island was officially launched. On the same day, the Sanya Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment and other units supervised and guaranteed the smooth start of the demolition work.

In the process of rectification and demolition, Zhou Hongbo, the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and the Secretary of the Sanya Municipal Party Committee, dispatched daily, held monthly meetings of the Standing Committee to listen to work reports or conduct on-site investigation and supervision, and made unannounced visits from time to time. He has repeatedly said that we should keep a close eye on the time nodes, objectives and tasks, carry out solid work, ensure timely sales, and complete the rectification task with high quality. Demolition

was completed more than nine months

ahead of schedule. In order to ensure the scientific and orderly progress of demolition work, Sanya City clearly selected enterprises with strong technical strength, strong ability to allocate resources and sufficient construction experience to carry out demolition in the bidding stage. At the same time, relevant expert teams are employed to review and check the key links such as the formulation of demolition plans and the selection of demolition processes.

In that year, the second phase of the reclamation project of Phoenix Island was constructed by the method of first enclosing the sea and then filling. The wave wall and revetment structure at the southwest end of the island were designed and constructed according to the specifications of wind and waves once in 50 years. Phoenix Island is surrounded by more than 330 caissons, each of which is about 13 meters high.

In the interview, the staff who participated in the demolition project said that "reclamation projects have been done before, but such a large amount of demolition has never been done", and the difficulty of demolition is unprecedented.

"After careful calculation and research, we divided the demolition project into three construction work surfaces when designing the scheme. In the corridor section, the surface reinforced concrete was removed and the mixed filling materials were excavated. In the straight section of the north revetment, the transfer platform was filled. In the island excavation work surface, the island core was excavated and filled with sand materials, which were transported to the embankment." Zou Xianxiao, project manager of China Construction Port Group Co., Ltd., the construction unit, introduced.

To remove the artificial island and excavate the working surface of the island body, the caissons on the periphery must be removed first.

At first, everyone thought that the technical scheme was all right, but when the first caisson was floating, it suddenly tilted sideways, which led to the suspension of construction. After repeated inspection and careful study by experts and technicians on the spot, they tried to lift again after caisson drainage and equipment commissioning.

Zou Xianxiao remembers very clearly that on October 18, 2021, everyone stood in the wind and rain watching the lifting machinery, feeling very nervous. Finally, the caisson surfaced steadily, and someone shouted out excitedly.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of the demolition of the artificial island and the rectification of related problems, Sanya City has set up the first temporary Party branch of the key rectification project in the province, which is composed of the leaders of the owner unit, the project escrow unit and the construction unit, and strives to play a good "party building plus" combination. The Provisional Party Branch regularly dispatches, dynamically manages and conducts on-site verification, and coordinates the work of various units and departments to form a joint effort, which provides a strong political guarantee for speeding up the project. Zhang Xiubiao, Secretary and Chairman of the Party Committee

of Sanya Environmental Investment Group, is not only the head of the project escrow unit, but also the Deputy Secretary of the Provisional Party Branch. He told reporters that during the construction period, "the branch is built on the project, and the party building follows the project", which has solved many difficulties and blockages for the site construction.

"We have experienced many typhoons, not only to ensure the safety of personnel and equipment, to minimize the impact of typhoons on construction, but also to race against time." Zhang Xiubiao said frankly that during that time, Party members led workers to stick to their posts and rush to the front line of windbreak rescue and construction.

More caissons have been lifted, which provides convenient conditions for large equipment to enter the site. The construction progress of key links such as underwater stone excavation and accropode (wave-proof facilities) removal has been gradually accelerated, but there is also a shortage of flat boats and belt boats. Xie Zhilong, a technician at the

scene, recalled that China Construction Port took the whole industry to solve the problem. "We not only deploy all kinds of ship and offshore demolition operation resources, but also integrate all kinds of ship energy efficiency into the project scientifically and rationally, transfer 16 flat boats and 6 belt boats from the Yangtze River Delta region, reserve spare ship sources, and timely supplement the operation of the damaged repair of the former ship."

Xie Zhilong has made detailed statistics, the whole demolition project has invested 335 sets of marine machinery equipment, and 542 people have participated in various management and construction personnel. During the peak period, 259 sets of marine machinery equipment were put into operation at the same time every day, and 431 people were present at the same time.

"From our real-time understanding of the situation, due to the difficulty of demolition, engineering vehicles have been repaired more than 1000 times, more than 40 vehicles have been scrapped, and construction vessels have been overhauled and repaired 66 times." Comrades in charge of the discipline inspection and supervision group of the Sanya Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision in the Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning lamented the difficulty of the demolition work, and also told the reporter the following data: the daily average amount of demolition work left the port from September 2021 was 0.

The effort paid off. With the efforts of all parties to overcome difficulties and make unremitting efforts, the second phase of Phoenix Island was basically demolished on March 19, 2022, which lasted 262 days, more than nine months ahead of the time limit of "December 2022".

"Cloud supervision" improves the quality and effectiveness

of rectification. It is an important political task to complete the rectification of the central environmental protection supervision. Under the deployment requirements of the Hainan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, the Sanya Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision has made great efforts to do a good job in daring to supervise and being good at supervising. Chen Xiangjun, member of the Standing Committee of

the Sanya Municipal Committee, Secretary of the Municipal Discipline Commission and director of the Supervisory Committee, used to carry a tablet computer in his briefcase. Through the client, Chen Xiangjun and other city leaders can see the dynamic scene of the second phase of the Phoenix Island rectification site in real time through the "5G Smart Site Cloud Platform", keep abreast of the progress of the project demolition, and solve the blockages and difficulties in time.

In order to ensure that the responsibility of rectification is in place, Sanya has innovated supervision means and set up 19 video monitoring points in key areas such as demolition sites and absorption sites by using 5G technology. High-frequency scanning and mobile inspection of the construction site by using the "Wisdom Eye" monitoring system can timely detect and coordinate the solution of safety production, environmental protection and other issues, and break through the information barrier from "decision-making front line" to "implementation front line".

Sanya Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision realizes remote supervision through "5G Intelligent Site Cloud Platform", so as to achieve prevention in advance, supervision in the event and traceability after the event, so as to make supervision more timely, accurate and effective. "After checking the abnormal data submitted by the cloud platform, we can efficiently find the problems in the rectification work, promptly urge the responsible units to conscientiously perform their duties and implement them vigorously, which greatly improves the efficiency of supervision."

The demolition project must also be a clean project.

"Discipline inspection, auditing, legal and accounting departments arrange personnel to enter special classes in advance, follow up and supervise the whole process, and focus on preventing violations of rules and regulations from the source." Comrades in charge of the discipline inspection and supervision group of the Sanya Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision in the Municipal Natural Resources and Planning Bureau told reporters that the discipline inspection and supervision organs of Sanya City extended the supervision probe to the front line of the project, especially at the important nodes of the project, the discipline inspection and supervision cadres would go straight to the scene without greeting. Take

the disposal of demolition waste and state-owned assets for example, there are about 606 in the demolition project. The responsible Comrade of the discipline inspection and supervision team said: "In order to provention and control the risk of integrity, we promote the establishment of a'tripartite registration 'system for material transportation, strengthen the management and control of demolition materials, ensure the resource utilization of materials, and the whole process can be traced."

According to the resource utilization plan of the remaining materials of the demolition project, Sanya City will classify the demolition materials, and the waste steel bars stripped from the demolition construction will be disposed in accordance with the law and regulations in the form of "evaluation + auction"; the demolished sand and stone materials will be used for sand filling, beach protection, crushing and processing into building materials, and most of them will be listed for transfer to realize resource utilization. At present, Hainan Property Exchange Co., Ltd. has issued the announcement of the overall public listing and transfer of the surplus materials of the demolition project of Phoenix Island Phase II, and transferred the relevant stone, sand, concrete blocks and other materials.

In the past period, some cities and counties in Hainan Province made unscientific decisions, imprecise procedures and lax supervision in the process of land reclamation, which had a significant impact on or damaged the local ecological environment. The demolition and rectification of the second phase of Phoenix Island set an example for the whole province, and also sent a strong signal that it must be rectified and resolutely rectified.

Recently, four cities and counties, Wenchang, Wanning, Wuzhishan and Dingan, publicly implemented the rectification plan of the first batch of routine supervision reports on ecological environment protection in Hainan Province in 2022. These places have unified their thinking and raised their awareness, regarded every question of supervisory feedback as a political "must-answer question", as a touchstone of whether to achieve the "two safeguards", defined the objectives, tasks and specific measures, and took responsibility to ensure that the rectification was in place.

"The second phase of Phoenix Island is so difficult to demolish that it has been rectified, and the rectification in other places will certainly be implemented as scheduled." Relevant comrades of Hainan Provincial Eco-environmental Protection Supervision Office said.

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On May 5, according to the statistics of Sanya Municipal Bureau of Tourism and Culture, Sanya's scenic spots and coconut-class rural tourist spots received 723,900 tourists during the holidays, an increase of 819.37% over the same period last year; the number of inbound and outbound tourists in Sanya was 587,100, an increase of 259.47% over the same period last year.

2023-05-09 09:43:24